Our District	Change from Last Year
Total Number of Teachers	1023	Up from 1006
Percent of K-3 teachers who are certified in Read to Succeed reading certification	N/AV	N/A
Percent of teachers with advanced degrees	66.6	Up from 64.9
Teacher attendance rate	93.7	Up from 92.3
Average teacher salary	N/AV	N/A
Percent of teachers on continuing contract	99.9	Up from 99.7
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - current year	91.6	Up from 88.1
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - three year average	88.3	Up from 85.7
Percent of teacher vacancies for more than 9 weeks	0.9	Up from 0.5
Prime instructional time	84.5	Up from 82.7
Student-teacher ratio in core subjects	24.2 to 1	Down from 24.6 to 1
Percent of inexperienced principals in low poverty schools	40	N/A
Number of inexperienced principals in low poverty schools	2	N/A
Percent of inexperienced principals in high poverty schools	50	N/A
Number of inexperienced principals in high poverty schools	1	N/A
Percent of inexperienced other school leaders in low poverty schools	0	N/A
Number of inexperienced other school leaders in low poverty schools	0	N/A
Percent of inexperienced other school leaders in high poverty schools	100	N/A
Number of inexperienced other school leaders in high poverty schools	1	N/A
Percent of inexperienced principals	33.3	Up from 25
Number of inexperienced principals	9.0	Down from 25
Percent of inexperienced other school leaders	17.1	Down from 32
Number of inexperienced other school leaders	7.0	Down from 16
Percent of inexperienced teachers teaching in low poverty schools	7.9	Down from 9.4
Number of inexperienced teachers teaching in low poverty schools	13	Up from 3
Percent of out-of-field teachers teaching in low poverty schools	11.6	Up from 6.3
Number of out-of-field teachers teaching in low poverty schools	19	Up from 2
Percent of inexperienced teachers teaching in high poverty schools	30.2	Up from 24.4
Number of inexperienced teachers teaching in high poverty schools	13	Up from 10
Percent of out-of-field teachers teaching in high poverty schools	14.0	Up from 9.8
Number of out-of-field teachers teaching in high poverty schools	6	Up from 4
Percent of inexperienced teachers	12.6	Down from 17.3
Number of inexperienced teachers	133	Down from 191
Percent of out-of-field teachers	6.8	Down from 9.4
Number of out-of-field teachers	72	Down from 104

Inexperienced Teacher- a teacher with less than 4 years of experience.
Inexperienced School Leader- a School Administrator that has not completed their formal evaluation process (Tier 1)
Out of Field Teacher- a teacher teaching a course or courses outside their field of certification when a certification is required for that course.

ESSA regulations require states to post on their report cards information about teachers with emergency or provisional credentials. South Carolina does not award emergency or provisional credentials, thus that metric is not listed.

Note: The method for calculating prime instructional time was adjusted for 2025 school report cards. Comparing 2025 prime instructional time to prior years is not appropriate.